Penang General Hospital

Yo, I went to Penang General Hospital (GH) today because I had an appointment for consultation with the optometrist, eye doctor. This appointment was made since May 2020 when I had my rehabilitation follow up in GH. Therefore, I wonder how the patients sustain themselves if they are going to seek for medical treatment in GH. 

My appointment was at 10am but I received a call from Crystal from Gama, asking for Personal Accident (PA) insurance. I tried to convinced her to take up life insurance plan which covers all parts instead of just accident solely. I promised to call her up after my consultation in GH. 

The eye doctors said my left eye is still badly injured. I'm lucky as I still can see things and colours, just that my vision is dark a bit. I failed in the eye test of identifying number from the round circle. I surely will fail my driving license test if I'm taking my test now. 

The doctors even couldn't confirm my cause as well as treatment and brought me to seek for advice from the eye specialist in GH. She suggested me to take CT scan again to ensure the bruise and clogged blood in my brain and eye area are fully recovered. Hence, I had to go to 001 department (general outpatient) to take my blood for examination. Then I had to move to 012 (X-ray) department to book for CT scan appointment, it'll be on 24th November 2020 at 8am, I ought to be fastened after my dinner on 23rd November 2020. The eye doctor asked me to visit them before my CT scan to write the kidney and blood reports. Hopefully I still can remember that. I'm wondering whether they are there already before 8am even though I don't have to queue up.

I saw this poster or painting on the wall of the corridor outside 001 department in GH. These are the steps and guidances for washing our hands properly. Let's have a look.

My vision is still blurred after the few drops of eye medicine in the 002 (eye) department. The doctor said the effect will last for six hours and suggested me to take Grab car or ask my family member to bring me home. I can see big subject but the small words, for instance subjects in iPad or my mobile phone cannot be seen clearly. I thought I would get better after some time, thus I rode my motorcycle to KFC Batu Lanchang where I dated Crystal, but my vision was still the same and hence I went back to my home. I called Crystal to cancel our appointment but she apologised for not informing that she wished to change our appointment date. I was ok and I tried to date her next Monday, her off day but I'll try to find her in Gama on Thursday.

Hopefully my vision will be back to normal at night. The eye doctor asked me why I consulted them since it was more than two years after my road accident. They believed the medicine or eye drop will help out if the treatment was earlier. They even told me that eye department had checked on me when I was admitted into GH that time. I'm not sure about that since I lost my awareness that time. 

Anyway, hopefully this time I can find the ones who can help me out this round and recover my vision from dark to clear. When I was home, it was 4pm. The whole journey took so long time. From here, I realised the importance of having a medical card. With medical card, we can seek for medical advice or treatment in private hospital, which we believe is faster in efficiency and effectiveness due to the doctors or specialists' experience. 

Disease will surely find us one day, just that we're not sure when it'll be. Thus medical plan has to be owned as soon as possible. Regardless of the premium paid monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly because I believe that medical fees will be a lot higher than what we pay to insurance company. This is a best deal and trade-off. 

Besides, we have to possess a living expenses plan too. Let's say we're badly fall in illness and we can't work anymore, will the employer pities us and still gives us salary as usual or half of it? It's impossible, isn't it? Hence, for protection wised, we must have medical fees and salary covered so that we won't be a burden to our family, not to mention that they still need us